Kool Aid Served Daily

So, I wasn't that big of The Ramones fan growing up - just a tad too young and they didn't do MTV very well. I did buy Loud, Fast Ramones: Their Toughest Hits on a lark for my iPod Nano.

So I'm zoning out to We're A Happy Family:

"We're A Happy Family"

We're a happy family
We're a happy family
We're a happy family
Me mom and daddy

Siting here in Queens
Eating refried beans
We're in all the magazines
Gulpin' down thorazines

We ain't got no friends
Our troubles never end
No Christmas cards to send
Daddy likes men

Daddy's telling lies
Baby's eating flies
Mommy's on pills
Baby's got the chills

I'm friends with the President
I'm friends with the Pope
We're all making a fortune
Selling Daddy's dope

Perhaps it is the ability to stand apart from the times, but the line "Daddy likes men" had to be a bombshell at the time. You still have to be pretty subtle about homosexuality and that must have been considered very socially deviant.